11/29/2023 0 Comments Print texts from samsung sidekick![]() The colourful, user-friendly graphics and background don’t always extend to the business end of the features. Click on these and you either get a sub-menu carousel or go straight to the function you’ve selected. Roll over the messaging and organiser icons, and you'll also be shown if you have any unread messages, notes, tasks or events to look at. The main menu is a carousel of large icons which shows what each one does as you highlight the options in turn. Call and End keys take care of making voice calls. There are shortcut buttons on the top of the phone too for the camera and messaging options. Icon-labelled buttons in each corner allow you to backtrack or go straight to the main menu screen. Or you can use the four-way pad on the left side. You navigate the main menu control using a neat trackball on the right of the keyboard. You can call also use a virtual numberic pad on screen when the slide is closed. ![]() To type out phone numbers, as well as a row of number keys, there's a secondary keypad-style grid of numbers overlaid onto some of the letter keys. One gripe is the additional, alternative characters, all too small and too blue against the black keys, making it almost impossible to identify them in low-light conditions. With the screen up, the dinky keys are fine for tapping out text with your thumbs, though go carefully if you have thicker digits. We suspect the funky, Facebook-savvy target audience might just notice these shortcomings. But the camera is a 1.3-megapixel snapper – real entry-level stuff in late 2007 – which surprisingly doesn’t even do video recording. It does have a music player – supporting multiple file formats this time around, including MP3, AAC and WMA files included - and a hot-swappable Micro SD memory card slot. It’s not a 3G device, relying on quad-band GSM/GPRS/Edge connectivity. The Slide isn't exactly cutting-edge either. Previous Sidekicks have been criticised on this side of the Atlantic for offering dated features. But the Sidekick isn’t meant to be a business or techie messaging device ![]() The Qwerty keypad is a vital part of the Slide's easy email, instant messaging and texting functionality, and also lends a hand to browsing on the device’s big-ish screen. The device is designed as a gadget for young people to stay in touch via email and IM as they zip around town, surfing and networking as they go. It measures 117 x 61 x 10mm and weighs around 156g, so has the size and feel of a PDA rather than a phone. The Slide may be smaller and more compact than the handbag-sagging 182g Sidekick 3, but it’s still no slimline pocket-pleaser. T-Mobile's Sidekick Slide: 25 per cent smaller than previous models It still has the Sidekick-style Qwerty keypad hidden under a moving 2.4in, 320 x 240 pixel (QVGA) display, though this time the screen simply slides up rather than slide-and-swivelling into place. It’s 25 per cent smaller than the previous models, and slimmer too – addressing one of the most obvious turn-offs of its too-chunky predecessors. The Slide is the first of the series to be made by Motorola rather than Sharp. But, despite several attempts by T-Mobile to propel the Danger-designed device into the mainstream, it has so far failed to get Britain's youth ditching their Nokias and Walkman phones en masse. Review Whenever the Sidekick is mentioned, the phrases “big in the States” and “Paris Hilton” inevitably follow.
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